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SECTION III. THE PRACTICE OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. There are three
things which have to be established in this section. 1st. That the
Jewish Christians observed the same Sabbath, and in the same way,
as their Lord had done; that is, the ordinary Mosaic Sabbath, as a
day of rest. 2dly. That the Gentile Christians observed no general
day of rest whatever: and, 3dly, that Christians, of all kinds,
kept the Lord's-day, or the first day of the week, not indeed as a
Sab bath, but as a prayer-day, devoted to congregational worship.
The first assertion will be readily acknowledged as true, if it be
remembered, not only that we are told of the disciples of Christ
that they left his body in the tomb till Sunday morning, in order
that they might rest the Sabbath, according to the commandment; but
also that it is manifestly implied in the .Acts of theApostles,
that the Jewish Christians obeyed all the laws of their nation.
Knowing, as we do, that the Sanhedrim could enforce their own
native laws on all Jews; we cannot imagine that the entire body of
circumcised disciples could have set at nought so tangible an
injunction as that of the Sabbath, without some notice being taken
of it. The silence of the sacred history on any difference of
opinion, upon this subject, between the believers and the infidels
of Israel, fully proves that no such difference existed. St. Paul
says, indeed (Col. ii. 16), "Let no man therefore judge you in meat
or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of
the Sabbath-days." But no one can read the passage, without
perceiving that the apostle is arguing against those who would bind
their own sectarian views of these ordinances upon others, in such
a way as to make them burdensome, or account them a means of
justification. He is "reproba...
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